Country size comparison
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South Africa is about 6,773 times bigger than Aruba.
Aruba is approximately 180 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 677,172% larger than Aruba. Meanwhile, the population of Aruba is ~122,320 people (57.4 million more people live in South Africa).
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