Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 42 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 2.39% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (120.9 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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