Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 2.4 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 140% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (16.9 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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