Country size comparison

compared to

Belgium is about 3.9 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 25.96% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (5.6 million more people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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