Country size comparison
compared to
Kenya is about 2.1 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, making Kenya 47.61% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Kenya).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Kenya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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