Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 9 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 10.65% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (107.4 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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