Country size comparison
compared to
Ethiopia is around the same size as South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 90.58% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.1 million more people live in Ethiopia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Ethiopia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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