Country size comparison
compared to
Bahamas is about 88 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Bahamas is approximately 13,880 sq km, making Bahamas 1.14% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.2 million fewer people live in Bahamas).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Bahamas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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