Country size comparison

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Brazil is about 7 times bigger than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Brazil is approximately 8,515,770 sq km, making Brazil 599% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (159.7 million more people live in Brazil).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Brazil uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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