Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.2 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 82.3% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (56.8 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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