Country size comparison

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Burundi is about 7 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Burundi is approximately 27,830 sq km, making Burundi 14.85% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (8.9 million fewer people live in Burundi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Burundi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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