Country size comparison

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Syria is about 3.4 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 29.39% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (9.2 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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