Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 11 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 9.33% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (135.1 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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