Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 5 times bigger than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 434% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (86.2 million more people live in Egypt).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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