Country size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 6 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 17.14% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (14.2 million fewer people live in Massachusetts).
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