Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.8 times bigger than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 82% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (17.2 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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