Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 106 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.94% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (1.1 million more people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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