Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 3.8 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 26.12% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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