Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 3.8 times bigger than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 276% larger than Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (52.0 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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