Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 1.2 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 83.65% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (102.1 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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