Country size comparison
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Malawi is about 3.9 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 25.6% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (11.2 million more people live in Malawi).
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