Country size comparison
compared to
Barbados is about 2,835 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, making Barbados 0.04% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.2 million fewer people live in Barbados).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Barbados
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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