Country size comparison
compared to
Ecuador is about 4.3 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, making Ecuador 23.26% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (40.2 million fewer people live in Ecuador).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Ecuador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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