Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 1,107 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.09% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~36.0 million people (35.4 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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