Country size comparison

compared to

Malaysia is around the same size as Finland.

Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 97.55% the size of Finland. Meanwhile, the population of Finland is ~5.6 million people (28.3 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Finland vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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