Country size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 12 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 8.44% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (53.2 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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