Country size comparison
South Africa
compared to
Russia
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).
We have positioned the outline of Russia near the middle of South Africa.
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Russia
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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