Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.7 times smaller than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 57.89% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (16.0 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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3,116 people moved from Syria to Norway.
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