Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.6 times bigger than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 59% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (15.4 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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