Country size comparison

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Peru is about 7 times bigger than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 586% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (10.7 million more people live in Peru).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Peru uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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