Country size comparison

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Kentucky is about 1.8 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 54.9% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (17.2 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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