Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 10 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 866% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (48.0 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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