Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 2.9 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 34.46% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (19.7 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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