Country size comparison
compared to
Germany is about 3.4 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 29.29% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (26.8 million more people live in Germany).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Germany
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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