Country size comparison
compared to
Eritrea is about 6 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 18.03% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (32.1 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
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