Country size comparison
compared to
Virgin Islands is about 638 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 0.16% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.4 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Virgin Islands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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