Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 2.8 times smaller than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 36.32% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (655,422 more people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Eritrea to Norway · OECD 2023
686 people moved from Eritrea to Norway.
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