Country size comparison

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Syria is about 41 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 2.42% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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