Country size comparison

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Cyprus is about 20 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 4.94% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (20.3 million fewer people live in Cyprus).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Cyprus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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