Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 9 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 11.37% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (65.2 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
Syria
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