Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 9.65% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.3 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Eritrea to South Africa · UN DESA 2020
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