Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 8 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 12.7% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
China
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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