Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 10 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 10.29% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.5 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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