Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.5 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 54% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (18.6 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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