Country size comparison

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Syria is about 6 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 16.97% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (109.9 million fewer people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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