Country size comparison
compared to
India is about 2.7 times bigger than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 170% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (1.3 billion more people live in India).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
India
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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