Country size comparison

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Syria is about 2.9 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 33.99% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (46.7 million fewer people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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