Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.9 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 87% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (19.2 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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