Country size comparison
compared to
Luxembourg is about 471 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Luxembourg is approximately 2,586 sq km, making Luxembourg 0.21% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.9 million fewer people live in Luxembourg).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Luxembourg
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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