Country size comparison

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Syria is about 2.9 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 190% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (19.7 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Syria to Latvia · OECD 2021
2 people moved from Syria to Latvia.
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