Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 3.7 times bigger than Malaysia.
Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 270% larger than Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (23.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Malaysia
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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