Country size comparison

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Panama is about 8 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Panama is approximately 75,420 sq km, making Panama 12.85% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (23.8 million fewer people live in Panama).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Panama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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