Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 13 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 7.68% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (17.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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