North Carolina is about 1.5 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 67.31% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (12.0 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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