Country size comparison
compared to
Turkey is about 1.6 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 64.27% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (25.5 million more people live in Turkey).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Turkey
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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