Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 2.1 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 46.41% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (15.7 million fewer people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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