Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 3.4 times bigger than Germany.
Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 241% larger than Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (26.8 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Germany
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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