Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 1,287 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.08% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (20.5 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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