Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 2.3 times smaller than Argentina.
Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 43.85% the size of Argentina. Meanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~46.2 million people (11.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Argentina
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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