Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 4.5 times bigger than Gabon.

Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 355% larger than Gabon. Meanwhile, the population of Gabon is ~2.3 million people (55.2 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Gabon vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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