Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 18 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 5.43% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (6.2 million more people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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