Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 16 times smaller than Sudan.

Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 6.32% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~51.7 million people (48.1 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sudan vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Eritrea to Sudan · UN DESA 2020
220,960 people born in Eritrea live in Sudan.
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