Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.6 times smaller than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 62.2% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (39.5 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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