Country size comparison

compared to

Malta is about 222 times smaller than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.45% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Malta).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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