Country size comparison

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China is about 82 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 8,061% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from China to Eritrea · UN DESA 2020
117 people born in China live in Eritrea.
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