Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 431 times bigger than Samoa.
Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 42,962% larger than Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of Samoa is ~206,179 people (57.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Samoa
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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