Country size comparison
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Washington is about 7 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 13.9% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (14.0 million fewer people live in Washington).
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