Country size comparison
compared to
Nigeria is about 1.3 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 75.78% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (167.6 million more people live in Nigeria).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Nigeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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