Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 5 times bigger than Taiwan.
Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 421% larger than Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Taiwan
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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