Country size comparison
compared to
Uruguay is about 1.5 times bigger than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 50% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Uruguay
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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