Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 3.2 times bigger than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 223% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (66.7 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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