Country size comparison

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Syria is about 12 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 8.65% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (21.5 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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