Country size comparison
compared to
Vanuatu is about 15 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 6.5% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Vanuatu
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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