Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is about 2.2 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 44.54% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~612,000 people (21.6 million more people live in Malawi).
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