Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 598 times bigger than Mauritius.
Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 59,659% larger than Mauritius. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritius is ~1.3 million people (56.2 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritius
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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