Country size comparison
compared to
Somalia is about 1.9 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 52.31% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (45.1 million fewer people live in Somalia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Somalia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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