Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 2.7 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 170% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (14.5 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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