Country size comparison
compared to
Malaysia is about 3.7 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 27.06% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (23.6 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Malaysia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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