Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is around the same size as North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 93.91% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (11.3 million more people live in Malawi).
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