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 ~36.0 million people (15.7 million more people live in South Korea).
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