Country size comparison

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Bahrain is about 1,604 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Bahrain is approximately 760 sq km, making Bahrain 0.06% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.0 million fewer people live in Bahrain).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Bahrain uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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