Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 12 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 8.18% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
South Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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