Country size comparison

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Syria is about 629 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 62,798% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (21.2 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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