Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is around the same size as Chad.
Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 94.94% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (39.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Chad
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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