Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 2.7 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 37.09% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.3 billion fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
India
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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