Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 2.9 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 35.06% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (3.4 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
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