Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.8 times bigger than Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 80% larger than Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (32.4 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Texas
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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