Country size comparison
compared to
Finland is about 3.6 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, making Finland 27.74% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.9 million fewer people live in Finland).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Finland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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