Country size comparison

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Mali is about 12 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 1,109% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (12.7 million more people live in Mali).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Mali uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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