Country size comparison

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Syria is about 4.2 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 23.92% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (61.5 million fewer people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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