Country size comparison
compared to
Chile is about 1.6 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Chile is approximately 756,102 sq km, making Chile 62.02% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (39.1 million fewer people live in Chile).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Chile
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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