Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 398 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.25% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.4 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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