Country size comparison
compared to
Nigeria is about 4.9 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 393% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (203.5 million more people live in Nigeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Nigeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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