Country size comparison
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Malta is about 545 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.18% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (6.3 million fewer people live in Malta).
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