Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 10 times bigger than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 929% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (36.7 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Malawi
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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