Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 4,091 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.02% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.1 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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