Uzbekistan is about 2.7 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Uzbekistan is approximately 447,400 sq km, making Uzbekistan 36.7% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (26.4 million fewer people live in Uzbekistan).
This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Uzbekistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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