Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.8 times smaller than Finland.

Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 55.43% the size of Finland. Meanwhile, the population of Finland is ~5.6 million people (16.0 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Finland vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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