Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.3 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 30% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (8.7 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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