Country size comparison
compared to
Albania is about 42 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Albania is approximately 28,748 sq km, making Albania 2.36% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.4 million fewer people live in Albania).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Albania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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