Country size comparison
compared to
Indonesia is about 1.6 times bigger than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 56% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (219.8 million more people live in Indonesia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Indonesia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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