Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.6 times smaller than Indonesia.
Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 64.01% the size of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the population of Indonesia is ~277.3 million people (219.8 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Indonesia
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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