South Africa is about 1.6 times smaller than Indonesia.

Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 64.01% the size of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the population of Indonesia is ~277.3 million people (219.8 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Indonesia vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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