Papua New Guinea is 3.9 times larger than Malawi.
Area: 118,484 km2 World Factbook
Population: 17,377,468 (July 2014) World Factbook
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. Wikipedia
Area: 462,840 km2 World Factbook
Population: 6,552,730 (July 2014) World Factbook
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Wikipedia