Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Eritrea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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