City Map Compare/Antananarivo vs Johannesburg
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Antananarivo

442 km²

Johannesburg

1,756 km²

Antananarivo vs Johannesburg: Urban Area Size

Johannesburg covers 1,756 km² of contiguous built-up land, 4.0× the built-up area of Antananarivo (442 km²).

AntananarivoJohannesburg
Urban areaAntananarivoJohannesburg
Population (2025)4.26 million8.59 million
Built-up area442 km²1,756 km²
Density9,627 /km²4,893 /km²

Urban area = contiguous built-up land and the people living in it in 2025, drawn the same way for every city regardless of administrative boundaries. Source: GHSL Urban Centre Database R2024A, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0); some names adjusted to the city names people use, and country attribution follows the dataset.

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