Country size comparison
compared to
Lebanon is about 117 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Lebanon is approximately 10,400 sq km, making Lebanon 0.85% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (52.2 million fewer people live in Lebanon).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Lebanon
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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