Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 9 times bigger than Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 823% larger than Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (15.0 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Massachusetts
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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