Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 4.5 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 349% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (24.8 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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