Malawi is 1,243 times larger than Sterling Heights, Michigan.
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: 95 km2 calculated
Sterling Heights is a city in Macomb County of the U.S. state of Michigan, and one of Detroit's core suburbs. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 129,699. It is the second largest suburb in Metro Detroit, and the fourth largest city in Michigan. Wikipedia