Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 2.5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 40.5% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (12.0 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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