Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.6 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 56% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (4.4 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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