Country size comparison

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Kentucky is around the same size as Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 87.5% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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