Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 56 times bigger than Israel.

Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 5,457% larger than Israel. Meanwhile, the population of Israel is ~8.9 million people (48.6 million more people live in South Africa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Israel vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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