Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 3.5 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 248% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (16.8 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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