Tennessee is around the same size as Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, making Tennessee 90.1% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (14.4 million fewer people live in Tennessee).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Tennessee uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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