Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 11 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 9.51% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (18.5 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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