Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 10 times bigger than Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 950% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (44.8 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Pennsylvania vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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