Country size comparison

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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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