Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 3.2 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 221% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (29.5 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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