Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 9.72% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (36.7 million fewer people live in Malawi).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Malawi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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