Country size comparison

compared to

Gibraltar is about 187,552 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Gibraltar is approximately 7 sq km, making Gibraltar 0.0% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.5 million fewer people live in Gibraltar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Gibraltar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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