Country size comparison
compared to
Connecticut is about 97 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, making Connecticut 1.03% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (53.9 million fewer people live in Connecticut).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Connecticut
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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