Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 7,619 times bigger than Liechtenstein.

Liechtenstein is approximately 160 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 761,831% larger than Liechtenstein. Meanwhile, the population of Liechtenstein is ~39,711 people (57.5 million more people live in South Africa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Liechtenstein vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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