Country size comparison
compared to
Sudan is about 1.5 times bigger than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 53% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Sudan).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Sudan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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