Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 2 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 49.66% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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