Mali covers 1,258,185 km² km² on the new Equal Earth world map — 0.9%% of all land on Earth, making it the 22nd largest country in the world and the 6th largest in Africa. At 17° latitude Mercator only inflates Mali by about 10%%, so the old and new maps largely agree on it — unlike the far north, where Mercator's stretch is dramatic.
For scale: Mali is roughly the same size as Angola (1,249,380 km² km²).
You could fit 3 of Paraguay inside Mali.