Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 13 times bigger than Portugal.
Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,224% larger than Portugal. Meanwhile, the population of Portugal is ~10.2 million people (47.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Portugal
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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