South Africa is about 7 times smaller than Brazil.

Brazil is approximately 8,515,770 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 14.32% the size of Brazil. Meanwhile, the population of Brazil is ~217.2 million people (159.7 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Brazil vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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