Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 14 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 7.13% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (84.5 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Russia
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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