Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 1.8 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 81% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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