Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 11 times bigger than Bulgaria.
Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 999% larger than Bulgaria. Meanwhile, the population of Bulgaria is ~6.9 million people (50.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Bulgaria
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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