Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 5 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 18.58% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (8.4 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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