Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 1.3 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 74.49% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~25.2 million people (212.3 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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