Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 1.9 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 53.42% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~36.0 million people (32.6 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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