Malaysia is 9.5% larger than Italy.
Area: 301,340 km2 World Factbook
Population: 61,680,122 (July 2014) World Factbook
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Southern Europe. To the north, Italy borders France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia, and is approximately delimited by the Alpine watershed, enclosing the Po Valley and the Venetian Plain. Wikipedia
Area: 329,847 km2 World Factbook
Population: 30,073,353 (July 2014) World Factbook
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of 329,847 square kilometres separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia. Wikipedia