Country size comparison

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Colombia is about 10 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 868% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (42.8 million more people live in Colombia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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