Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 40 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 2.5% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (45.7 million fewer people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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