Country size comparison

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Djibouti is about 8 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 12.38% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (20.6 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Djibouti uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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