Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 40 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km,
while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making
Belgium 2.5% the size of South Africa.
Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people
(45.7 million fewer people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Belgium
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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