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