Country size comparison

compared to

Eritrea is about 2.3 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 43.74% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (1.2 million more people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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