Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 1.4 times smaller than Suriname.

Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 72.33% the size of Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~632,638 people (20.2 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Suriname vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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