Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.3 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 30% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (18.5 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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