Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.3 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 77.2% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (18.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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