Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 134 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 0.75% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.4 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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