Country size comparison

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Romania is about 5 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, making Romania 19.55% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (39.0 million fewer people live in Romania).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Romania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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