Country size comparison

compared to

Hong Kong is about 169 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.59% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (14.3 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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