Country size comparison
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Eritrea is around the same size as North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 97.56% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (19.7 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
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