Country size comparison
compared to
Vietnam is about 3.7 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 27.17% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (46.3 million more people live in Vietnam).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Vietnam
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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