Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 1.6 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 62.74% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (15.4 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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