Country size comparison
compared to
Bhutan is about 32 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 3.15% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.6 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Bhutan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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