Country size comparison

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Kyrgyzstan is about 6 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Kyrgyzstan is approximately 199,951 sq km, making Kyrgyzstan 16.4% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.4 million fewer people live in Kyrgyzstan).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Kyrgyzstan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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