Country size comparison
compared to
Gabon is about 1.4 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, making Gabon 43% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (19.2 million fewer people live in Gabon).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Gabon
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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