Country size comparison
compared to
Egypt is about 1.2 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km,
while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making
Egypt 82.15% the size of South Africa.
Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people
(50.3 million more people live in Egypt).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Egypt
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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