Country size comparison

compared to

South Africa is about 8 times bigger than Nepal.

Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 728% larger than Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (26.9 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Nepal vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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