Country size comparison
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Eritrea is around the same size as Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 96.8% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (3.2 million more people live in Eritrea).
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