Country size comparison

compared to

Ireland is about 2.7 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 37.49% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (16.3 million fewer people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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