Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 1.2 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 86.55% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (12.8 million fewer people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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