Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.9 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 51.18% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (13.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Algeria
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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