Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 395 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.25% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (5.8 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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