Country size comparison
compared to
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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