Malawi, the Warm Heart of Africa, is a landlocked East African country. Lake Malawi covers a third of the country and contains more fish species than any other lake on Earth.
English, Chichewa
These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 178 people per km² rank 54 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.261 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of Africa | 1.4% of its people, 0.395% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 45,747 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Eritrea (117,600 km²) |
| Closest in population | Zambia (20,723,965 people) |
Malawi is the only country in our list that uses MWK.