Country size comparison

compared to

Israel is about 9 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 11.7% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (12.6 million fewer people live in Israel).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Israel uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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