Country size comparison

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Syria is about 9 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 10.65% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (14.4 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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