Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is about 2.2 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 44.54% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (20.1 million more people live in Malawi).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Malawi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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