Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 8 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 12.41% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~70.5 million people (66.9 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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