Country size comparison
compared to
Uruguay is around the same size as Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 94.01% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (18.2 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Uruguay
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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