Country size comparison
compared to
American Samoa is about 5,442 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while American Samoa is approximately 224 sq km, making American Samoa 0.02% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.5 million fewer people live in American Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
American Samoa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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