Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.4 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 69.72% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (16.5 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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