Country size comparison

compared to

Netherlands is about 2.8 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 35.33% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (11.2 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

Share this