Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is around the same size as Minnesota.
Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 90.91% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (16.3 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Minnesota
vs.
Syria
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