Sub-Saharan Africa · MWWhere is Malawi?
Malawi is grouped in the World Bank's Sub-Saharan Africa region. Its listed capital is Lilongwe. The profile's representative coordinates are 13.99° S, 33.77° E; they are orientation points, not geometric centroids or boundary claims.
How large is Malawi?
EqualAtlas calculates a consistent spherical area from the same Natural Earth boundary geometry used for the map. For Malawi, that mapped area is approximately 119,763 square kilometres, ranking #101 among 238 mapped country and territory profiles. It may differ slightly from figures published by national statistical offices because coastlines, inland water and territorial definitions vary by dataset.
People and place
Malawi had a World Bank population value of 22,216,120 in 2025. Using the displayed mapped area, that is about 185.5 people per square kilometre. Area and population answer different questions, so EqualAtlas keeps their reference methods visible rather than combining them into an unexplained ranking.
For wider context, the latest imported World Bank GDP value is $14.9B for 2025, ranking #142 among 185 profiles with data. This current-dollar measure should not be read as a cost-of-living or household-income comparison.
The latest imported life expectancy at birth value is 67.6 years for 2024, ranking #169 among 215 profiles with data. It is a period estimate based on prevailing mortality rates, not a prediction for an individual person.
Population and economic data: World Bank Open Data. Boundary geometry: Natural Earth via world-atlas. Data and methods are explained on the data sources page.
Countries and territories closest in mapped area
These are the three profiles whose mapped areas are nearest to Malawi under the same geometry and spherical calculation.
North Korea
Benin
Eritrea