Country size comparison
compared to
Bulgaria is about 11 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 9.1% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (50.6 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Bulgaria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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