Country size comparison

compared to

Vanuatu is about 102 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 0.98% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (20.4 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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