Country size comparison

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Cyprus is about 132 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 0.76% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.2 million fewer people live in Cyprus).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Cyprus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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