Country size comparison

 South Africa
compared to
 Greenland

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). We have positioned the outline of Greenland near the middle of South Africa.
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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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