Country size comparison
Peru
compared to
South Africa
Peru is around the same size as South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 5% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (25.2 million fewer people live in Peru).
We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Peru.
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This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Peru
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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