Country size comparison
compared to
Qatar is about 105 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 0.95% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (55.0 million fewer people live in Qatar).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Qatar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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