Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 42 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 2.41% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (6.0 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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