Country size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 2.4 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 41.6% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (16.9 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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