Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 30 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 2,853% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (49.0 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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