Country size comparison

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South Africa is around the same size as Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 98.3% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (36.8 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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