Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritius is about 598 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, making Mauritius 0.17% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.2 million fewer people live in Mauritius).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Mauritius
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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