Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 2.3 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 134% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (18.9 million more people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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