Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 5,442 times bigger than American Samoa.

American Samoa is approximately 224 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 544,137% larger than American Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of American Samoa is ~45,443 people (57.5 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of American Samoa vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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