Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 15 times bigger than Connecticut.
Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 1,394% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (18.0 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Connecticut
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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