Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 1.5 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 64.82% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (18.6 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
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