Country size comparison

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Lebanon is about 18 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Lebanon is approximately 10,400 sq km, making Lebanon 5.55% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (16.3 million fewer people live in Lebanon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Lebanon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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