Eritrea is about 1.2 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 81.27% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.2 million more people live in Eritrea).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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