Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 1.5 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 49% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (17.4 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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