Country size comparison
compared to
Colombia is around the same size as South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 93.42% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (8.5 million fewer people live in Colombia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Colombia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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