Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 6 times bigger than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 535% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (31.4 million fewer people live in Australia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Australia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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