Malawi

Facts

What the numbers say about Malawi

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 142× the size of Malawi.
• Malawi ranks 68th of 237 by population but only 101st of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 147 people per km², Malawi is the 43rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Malawi lies at 13°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Malawi's main territory stretches about 862 km north to south and 349 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 118,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 119,000 km², to within 2%.

How Malawi measures up

Malawi holds 0.4% of the land area and 1.2% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Eastern Africa it is the 13th largest of 17.

Where Malawi sits

• Malawi's centre lies at 13.2°S, 34.3°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,470 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 17°S to 9°S, about 860 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Malawi had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Malawi would have 149.5 million people. It has 17.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Malawi would have 444,000 people. It has 17.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 8.6 million.

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