Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 19 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,787% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (55.7 million more people live in South Africa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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