Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 2 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km,
while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making
Syria 49.6% the size of Japan.
Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people
(102.7 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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