Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 2 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 102% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (102.7 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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