Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 1.8 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 56.7% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (31.5 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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