Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 15 times bigger than Austria.

Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,354% larger than Austria. Meanwhile, the population of Austria is ~8.9 million people (48.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Austria vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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