Country size comparison
compared to
Virginia is around the same size as Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 87.2% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (1.8 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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