Country size comparison

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Uruguay is around the same size as Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 94.01% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (18.2 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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