Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 28 times bigger than Denmark.

Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 2,729% larger than Denmark. Meanwhile, the population of Denmark is ~5.9 million people (51.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Denmark vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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