Country size comparison
Afghanistan
compared to
Syria
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).
We have positioned the outline of Syria near the middle of Afghanistan.
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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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