South Africa is about 1.8 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 56.28% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (57.5 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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