Country size comparison

compared to

South Africa is about 1.5 times bigger than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 48% larger than Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (54.8 million more people live in South Africa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from South Africa to Namibia · UN DESA 2020
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