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Malawi

Republic of Malawi
Africa · Eastern Africa

0Population

118.48Kkm² of land

$412GDP / person

LilongweCapital

ISO codes: MW · MWI
Density: 157 /km²
Languages: English, Chewa
Currency: Malawian kwacha (MWK)
Dial code: +265
Internet domain: .mw
Time zones: 1
Coastline: Landlocked
Map centre: 13.3870° S, 33.6080° E
Demonym: Malawian
UN region: Eastern Africa
Economy: Least developed region
Income group: Low income
Total GDP: $7.67B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 3

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By the numbers

How Malawi stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

63rd

of 242 · 0.24% of world population

Land area

101st

of 242 · 0.08% of world land

GDP per person

235th

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

73rd

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Malawi

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

Lake Malawi holds more fish species than any other lake on Earth.

2

Population is about 18,628,747 people, the 63rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.24 per cent of everyone alive.

3

Covers 118,484 km², making it the 101st largest country here - about 3.9 times the size of Belgium.

4

Population density is about 157 people per km².

5

The capital is Lilongwe, at 13.98° S, 33.78° E, with a metropolitan population of about 646,750.

6

Shares land borders with 3 countries: Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.

7

Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.

8

Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Blantyre.

9

The currency is the Malawian kwacha (MWK, symbol MK).

10

Has 2 official languages: English and Chewa.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Africa/Blantyre

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UTC+02:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 ★ Lilongwe Lilongwe 13.9833° S, 33.7833° E 646.75K

2 Blantyre Blantyre 15.7900° S, 34.9899° E 584.88K

3 Mzuzu Mzimba 11.4600° S, 34.0200° E 110.2K

Land neighbours

3 countries share a border with Malawi.