Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 1.8 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 54.95% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (21.2 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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