Europe dwarfs Sudan: about 10,180,000 km² km² against 1,863,027 km² km². At true size Europe is about 5.5× larger — the whole of Sudan fits into Europe roughly 5 times.
The old Mercator map treated both about equally (1× vs 1.1× inflation), so at least their relative sizes were preserved — even if both were drawn at the wrong absolute scale.
Sudan fits 5× into Europe.