Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 18 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 1,742% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (6.2 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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