Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 10 times bigger than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 897% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (38.1 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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