Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 8 times smaller than Canada.
Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km,
while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making
South Africa 12.21% the size of Canada.
Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people
(19.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Canada
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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