Country size comparison

compared to

Malaysia is about 6 times smaller than Indonesia.

Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 17.32% the size of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the population of Indonesia is ~277.3 million people (243.5 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Indonesia vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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