Country size comparison

compared to

South Korea is about 3.3 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 30.23% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (18.0 million more people live in South Korea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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