Country size comparison
compared to
Hong Kong is about 1,100 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.09% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (50.2 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Hong Kong
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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