Country size comparison
Japan
compared to
South Africa
Japan is about 3.2 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 31.0% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (66.7 million more people live in Japan).
We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Japan.
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This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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