Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is around the same size as North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 98.3% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Malawi).
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