Country size comparison
Malta
compared to
South Africa
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).
We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Malta.
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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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