Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 1.5 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 66.74% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (2.8 million more people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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