Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 122 times smaller than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.82% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (6.0 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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