Country size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 48 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 2.08% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.7 million fewer people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Maryland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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