Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 1.8 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 54.92% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~3.6 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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