Country size comparison
compared to
Kuwait is about 68 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 1.46% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.4 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Kuwait
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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