Country size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.5 times smaller than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 66.31% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (1.6 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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