South Korea is about 12 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 8.18% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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