Kazakhstan is 15 times larger than Syria.
Area: 2,724,900 km2 World Factbook
Population: 17,948,816 (July 2014) World Factbook
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a contiguous transcontinental country in Central Asia, with its smaller part west of the Ural River in Europe. Wikipedia
Area: 185,180 km2 World Factbook
Population: 17,951,639 (July 2014) World Factbook
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Wikipedia