Country size comparison
compared to
Djibouti is about 53 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 1.9% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.6 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Djibouti
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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