Country size comparison

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Pennsylvania is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 9.52% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (44.8 million fewer people live in Pennsylvania).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Pennsylvania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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