Country size comparison

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Louisiana is around the same size as Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, making Louisiana 95.94% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Louisiana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Louisiana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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