Country size comparison

compared to

Rwanda is about 47 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 2.12% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (7.6 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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