Country size comparison

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands is about 87,078 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Cocos (Keeling) Islands is approximately 14 sq km, making Cocos (Keeling) Islands 0.0% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.5 million fewer people live in Cocos (Keeling) Islands).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Cocos (Keeling) Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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