Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 11 times bigger than Ohio.

Ohio is approximately 106,056 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,049% larger than Ohio. Meanwhile, the population of Ohio is ~11.5 million people (46.0 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Ohio vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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