Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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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