Country size comparison

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Eritrea is around the same size as New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 96.17% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (13.2 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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