Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 6 times bigger than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 489% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (92.1 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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