Country size comparison
compared to
Thailand is about 2.4 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Thailand is approximately 513,120 sq km, making Thailand 42.09% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (12.1 million more people live in Thailand).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Thailand
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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