Country size comparison
compared to
Vanuatu is about 100 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 1.0% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.2 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Vanuatu
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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