South Africa is 3.9 times larger than Poland.
Area: 312,685 km2 World Factbook
Population: 38,346,279 (July 2014) World Factbook
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast and Lithuania to the north. Wikipedia
Area: 1,214,470 km2 World Factbook
Population: 48,375,645 (July 2014) World Factbook
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of Africa. It has 2,798 kilometres of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian oceans. Wikipedia