Country size comparison
compared to
Virgin Islands is about 62 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 1.61% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.7 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
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