Country size comparison
compared to
Sweden is about 2.7 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 36.94% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (47.0 million fewer people live in Sweden).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Sweden
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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