Country size comparison
compared to
Guyana is about 6 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km,
while Guyana is approximately 214,969 sq km, making
Guyana 17.63% the size of South Africa.
Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people
(56.7 million fewer people live in Guyana).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Guyana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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