Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 2.9 times bigger than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 190% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (19.7 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Syria
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