Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 2 times smaller than Romania.

Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 49.33% the size of Romania. Meanwhile, the population of Romania is ~18.5 million people (12.3 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Romania vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Eritrea to Romania · UN DESA 2020
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