Country size comparison

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France is about 4.7 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 369% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (62.1 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from France to Eritrea · UN DESA 2020
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