Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.4 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 69.28% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (50.4 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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