Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 42 times bigger than Samoa.

Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 4,085% larger than Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of Samoa is ~219,306 people (22.0 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Samoa vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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