Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 3.7 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 26.83% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (34.3 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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