Country size comparison
compared to
Zimbabwe is about 3.1 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, making Zimbabwe 32.05% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (42.4 million fewer people live in Zimbabwe).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Zimbabwe
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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