Country size comparison

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Syria is about 91 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 1.1% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (120.5 million fewer people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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