Country size comparison
compared to
Belize is about 53 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Belize is approximately 22,966 sq km, making Belize 1.88% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.1 million fewer people live in Belize).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Belize
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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