Country size comparison
compared to
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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