Country size comparison

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Mali is about 11 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 955% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (14.5 million more people live in Mali).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Mali uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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