Country size comparison

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Sudan is about 16 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 1,483% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (41.7 million more people live in Sudan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Sudan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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