Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 431 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.23% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.3 million fewer people live in Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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