Country size comparison
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Vanuatu is about 100 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 1.0% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.2 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
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