Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 17 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 6.03% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (19.2 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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