Country size comparison
compared to
Latvia is about 19 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 5.3% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (55.7 million fewer people live in Latvia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Latvia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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