Country size comparison
Syria
compared to
Afghanistan
Syria is about 3.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 28.74% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (16.8 million fewer people live in Syria).
We have positioned the outline of Afghanistan near the middle of Syria.
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This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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