Country size comparison
compared to
Kiribati is about 1,503 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Kiribati is approximately 811 sq km, making Kiribati 0.07% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.4 million fewer people live in Kiribati).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Kiribati
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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