Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 3.4 times bigger than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 240% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (9.2 million fewer people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Somalia to Syria · UN DESA 2020
1,079 people born in Somalia live in Syria.
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