Country size comparison
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Vanuatu is about 48 times smaller than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 2.08% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (27.9 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
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