Country size comparison

 Eritrea
compared to
 Illinois, USA

Eritrea is about 1.2 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 81.69% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Eritrea). We have positioned the outline of Illinois near the middle of Eritrea.
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Flip comparison: see Eritrea on top of Illinois
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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