Country size comparison
compared to
Madagascar is about 8 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 735% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (22.9 million more people live in Madagascar).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Madagascar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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