Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 4.5 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 22.4% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (7.0 million more people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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