Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 7 times bigger than Maryland.
Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 640% larger than Maryland. Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people (15.8 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Maryland
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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