Country size comparison
compared to
New York is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 10.03% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (38.1 million fewer people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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