Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.8 times smaller than Greenland.
Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 56.28% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (57.5 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Greenland
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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