Country size comparison

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Malta is about 372 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.27% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in Malta).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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