Country size comparison

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Syria is about 6 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 517% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.4 million people (23.3 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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