Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 10 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 9.78% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (18.3 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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