Country size comparison
compared to
Samoa is about 431 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km,
while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making
Samoa 0.23% the size of South Africa.
Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people
(57.3 million fewer people live in Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Samoa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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