Country size comparison
Panama
compared to
South Africa
Panama is about 16 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Panama is approximately 75,420 sq km, making Panama 6.19% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (53.2 million fewer people live in Panama).
We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Panama.
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This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Panama
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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