Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 4.5 times smaller than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 22.27% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (24.8 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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