Country size comparison
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South Africa is about 36 times bigger than Moldova.
Moldova is approximately 33,851 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 3,501% larger than Moldova. Meanwhile, the population of Moldova is ~3.3 million people (54.2 million more people live in South Africa).
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