Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.3 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 79.15% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (13.8 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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