Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 5 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 19.79% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (42.3 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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