Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 19 times bigger than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,787% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (55.7 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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