Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 144 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 0.69% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (121.2 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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