Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.6 times bigger than Turkey.
Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 56% larger than Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (25.5 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Turkey
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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