Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 23 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 4.26% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~27.6 million people (8.4 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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