Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 30 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 3.39% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (49.0 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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