Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 10 times bigger than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 937% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (51.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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