Country size comparison

Eritrea

compared to

Syria

Eritrea is about 1.6 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 62.74% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (15.4 million fewer people live in Eritrea). We have positioned the outline of Syria near the middle of Eritrea.