Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 2.7 times bigger than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 171% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (47.0 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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