Country size comparison

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China is about 51 times bigger than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 5,020% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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