Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 1.5 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 68.23% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (515,278 fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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