Greece is 1.07× the size of Eritrea

Greece covers about 131,000 km² (50,700 mi²) and Eritrea about 123,000 km² (47,300 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

131,000km²Greece
123,000km²Eritrea

200 km

Greece
Eritrea

What fits

Eritrea is 93% of the size of Greece.
Greece is larger by 8,820 km² (3,400 mi²), which is 7.2% of the area of Eritrea.
Measured in Belgiums: Greece is about 4.28, Eritrea about 4.00.

How they differ

Greece also has the larger population: 10.5 million against 3.5 million, 3.00× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 80 in Greece against 29 in Eritrea: Greece is 2.80× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 3,050 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Greece at 39°N is drawn about 1.7× too large and Eritrea at 15°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Greece as 1.65× the size of Eritrea instead of 1.07×.
Together Greece and Eritrea cover 254,000 km², close to the size of Ecuador (255,000 km², 0.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 8,820 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
At Eritrea's density, Greece would have 3.7 million people (it has 10.5 million). At Greece's density, Eritrea would have 9.8 million (it has 3.5 million).
Greece's centre is 23.7° of latitude, about 2,630 km, farther north than Eritrea's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Greece	1.07×
More people	Greece	3.00×
More crowded	Greece	2.80×
Farther north	Greece	23.7° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Greece	1.7× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Greece	Eritrea
Belgium 30,700 km²	4.28×	4.00×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.54×	0.50×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.37×	0.34×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.35×	0.33×
France 548,000 km²	0.24×	0.22×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.02×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Greece	Eritrea
Area, main territory	131,000 km²50,700 mi²	123,000 km²47,300 mi²
Population	10.5 millionWikidata, 2021	3.5 millionWikidata, 2019
Density	80 per km²	29 per km²
Official area	132,000 km²Wikidata	118,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Athens	Asmara
Latitude range	35°N to 42°N	12°N to 18°N
Continent	Europe	Africa

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2019, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 132,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 131,000 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 123,000 km² is 4.2% above Wikidata's official figure of 118,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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