Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 5 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 18.44% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (6.2 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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