Country size comparison
Botswana
compared to
South Africa
Botswana is about 2.1 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 47.72% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (55.1 million fewer people live in Botswana).
We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Botswana.
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This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Botswana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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