Country size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 63 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 1.58% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (48.7 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
New Jersey
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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