Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 609 times smaller than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.16% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (28.0 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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