Country size comparison
compared to
Eritrea is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 9.65% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.3 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Eritrea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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