Country size comparison

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Japan is about 3.2 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 221% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (118.0 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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