Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 2.9 times bigger than Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 186% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (1.6 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Sri Lanka
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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