Country size comparison
compared to
Eritrea is about 1.2 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making
Eritrea 81.69% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(6.6 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Eritrea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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