Country size comparison
compared to
Malta is about 3,858 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.03% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.1 million fewer people live in Malta).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Malta
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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