Country size comparison
compared to
Madagascar is about 2.1 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 48.15% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (29.3 million fewer people live in Madagascar).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Madagascar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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