Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.4 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 70.47% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (20.9 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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