Country size comparison

compared to

Malaysia is about 1.8 times bigger than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 76% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (12.3 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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