Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 10 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 903% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (54.5 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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