Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is around the same size as Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 87.59% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (5.9 million fewer people live in Iceland).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Iceland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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