Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 6 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 16.19% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (19.4 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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