Malaysia covers 330,621 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 0.2% of all land on Earth. It ranks 68th of 237 countries worldwide and 19th in Asia. At 4° latitude Mercator only inflates Malaysia by about 0.44%, so the old and new maps largely agree on it, unlike the far north where Mercator's stretch is dramatic.
For scale, Malaysia is roughly the same size as Vietnam (331,340 km²).
You could fit 3 of Cuba inside Malaysia.
Malaysia: key figures
| True area | 330,621 km² |
| World rank | 68th |
| Share of world land | 0.2% |
| Rank in Asia | 19th / 52 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.00× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 332,076 km² |
Largest countries in Asia (true area)
| Asia | |
|---|
| China | 9,596,960 km² |
| India | 3,287,263 km² |
| Kazakhstan | 2,724,910 km² |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² |
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 km² |
| Iran | 1,648,195 km² |