Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 105 times bigger than Qatar.

Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 10,422% larger than Qatar. Meanwhile, the population of Qatar is ~2.5 million people (55.0 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Qatar vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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