Country size comparison

compared to

Rwanda is about 4.5 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 22.23% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (7.6 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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