Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 8 times bigger than Timor-Leste.

Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 697% larger than Timor-Leste. Meanwhile, the population of Timor-Leste is ~1.4 million people (19.3 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Timor-Leste vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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