Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 12 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 8.45% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.2 million fewer people live in Iceland).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Iceland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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