Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 629 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km,
while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making
Maldives 0.16% the size of Syria.
Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people
(21.2 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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