Eritrea

Facts

What the numbers say about Eritrea

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 139× the size of Eritrea.
• Eritrea ranks 99th of 239 by area but only 133rd of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 29 people per km², Eritrea is the 137th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Eritrea lies at 15°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Eritrea's main territory stretches about 624 km north to south and 723 km east to west.
• 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.

How Eritrea measures up

Eritrea holds 0.4% of the land area and 0.2% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Eastern Africa it is the 12th largest of 17.

Where Eritrea sits

• Eritrea's centre lies at 15.4°N, 38.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,710 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 12°N to 18°N, about 630 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Eritrea had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Eritrea would have 153.5 million people. It has 3.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Eritrea would have 456,000 people. It has 3.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 8.9 million.

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