Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 27 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 3.7% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (33.6 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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