Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 5,166 times bigger than Cook Islands.
Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 516,464% larger than Cook Islands. Meanwhile, the population of Cook Islands is ~8,128 people (57.5 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Cook Islands
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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