Country size comparison

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Eritrea is around the same size as Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 89.48% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (1.4 million more people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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