Country size comparison
South Africa
compared to
Tanzania
South Africa is about 1.3 times bigger than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 29% larger than Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (6.3 million fewer people live in South Africa).
We have positioned the outline of Tanzania near the middle of South Africa.
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This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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