Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 8 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 12.51% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (43.1 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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