Country size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.5 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 65.82% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (16.2 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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