Country size comparison
compared to
Israel is about 56 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 1.8% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (48.6 million fewer people live in Israel).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Israel
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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