Country size comparison

compared to

Mali is about 8 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 12.92% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Mali).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Mali uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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