Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 13 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 7.43% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (10.5 million fewer people live in Portugal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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