Botswana covers 582,000 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 0.4% of all land on Earth. It ranks 48th of 237 countries worldwide and 22nd in Africa. At 22° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 1.2×, drawing it closer to 678,612 km², a difference of roughly 17%.
For scale, Botswana is roughly the same size as Kenya (580,367 km²).
You could fit 3 of Tunisia inside Botswana.
Botswana: key figures
| True area | 582,000 km² |
| World rank | 48th |
| Share of world land | 0.4% |
| Rank in Africa | 22nd / 58 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.2× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 678,612 km² |
Largest countries in Africa (true area)
| Africa | |
|---|
| Algeria | 2,381,741 km² |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,344,858 km² |
| Sudan | 1,878,000 km² |
| Libya | 1,759,540 km² |
| Chad | 1,284,000 km² |
| Niger | 1,267,000 km² |