Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 7 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 14.05% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~25.6 million people (11.1 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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