Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 4.5 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 353% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (52.5 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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