Country size comparison
compared to
Cabo Verde is about 302 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 0.33% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.9 million fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Cabo Verde
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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