Country size comparison
compared to
Greenland is about 1.8 times bigger than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 78% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.5 million fewer people live in Greenland).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Greenland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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