Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 6 times bigger than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 455% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (32.1 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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