Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 12 times bigger than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,085% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (53.2 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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