Ethiopia is around the same size as South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 90.58% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.1 million more people live in Ethiopia).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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