South Africa is around the same size as Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 94.94% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (39.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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