Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 4.9 times smaller than Kenya.

Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 20.26% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~55.9 million people (49.7 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kenya vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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