Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 1.7 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 59.16% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (14.7 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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