Country size comparison
compared to
Moldova is about 36 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Moldova is approximately 33,851 sq km, making Moldova 2.78% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.2 million fewer people live in Moldova).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Moldova
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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