Country size comparison
compared to
Saudi Arabia is about 1.8 times bigger than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 76% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (22.2 million fewer people live in Saudi Arabia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Saudi Arabia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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