Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is around the same size as Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 94.28% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~3.6 million people (2.8 million more people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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