Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 6 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 16.29% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (9.7 million fewer people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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