Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 12 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 8.34% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (124.7 million fewer people live in Portugal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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