Country size comparison

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Djibouti is about 5 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 19.73% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Djibouti uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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