Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 1.7 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 59.81% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (34.4 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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