Malawi covers 119,763 km² km² on the new Equal Earth world map — 0.1%% of all land on Earth, making it the 101st largest country in the world and the 38th largest in Africa. At 13° latitude Mercator only inflates Malawi by about 6%%, so the old and new maps largely agree on it — unlike the far north, where Mercator's stretch is dramatic.
For scale: Malawi is roughly the same size as Greece (130,177 km² km²).