Country size comparison

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Cameroon is about 2.6 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, making Cameroon 39.0% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (28.2 million fewer people live in Cameroon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Cameroon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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