Country size comparison

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Timor-Leste is about 8 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, making Timor-Leste 12.55% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (19.3 million fewer people live in Timor-Leste).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Timor-Leste uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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