Country size comparison

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Iceland is around the same size as Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 87.59% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (5.9 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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