Country size comparison
compared to
Denmark is about 28 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, making Denmark 3.53% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.6 million fewer people live in Denmark).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Denmark
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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