Country size comparison
Syria
compared to
South Africa
Syria is about 6 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 15.38% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (36.0 million fewer people live in Syria).
We have positioned the outline of South Africa near the middle of Syria.
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This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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