Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 4.9 times bigger than Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 387% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (47.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Michigan
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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