South Africa is 18,027 times larger than Arlington County, Virginia.
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
Area: 67 km2 calculated
Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is coterminous with the U.S. Census Bureau-designated place of Arlington, which is the second-largest principal city of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Wikipedia