Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 117 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.86% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (33.7 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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