Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 52 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 1.93% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (107.5 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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