Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.6 times bigger than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km,
while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making
Syria 59% larger than Eritrea.
Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people
(15.4 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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