Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.4 times bigger than Greece.

Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 42% larger than Greece. Meanwhile, the population of Greece is ~10.5 million people (11.0 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greece vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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