South Africa is about 3.2 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 223% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (66.7 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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