Country size comparison
compared to
Taiwan is about 34 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 2.95% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (33.9 million fewer people live in Taiwan).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Taiwan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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