Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 3.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making
Syria 28.74% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(16.8 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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