Country size comparison

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Lebanon is about 117 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Lebanon is approximately 10,400 sq km, making Lebanon 0.85% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (52.2 million fewer people live in Lebanon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Lebanon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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