Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 66 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 1.52% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~27.6 million people (24.0 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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