Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 66 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 1.51% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (21.4 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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