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 ~32.7 million people (32.4 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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