Country size comparison

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Syria is about 3.1 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 32.22% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (19.2 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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