Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 6 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 550% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (36.0 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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