Country size comparison
compared to
Malaysia is about 1.2 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 23% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (28.8 million more people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Malaysia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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