Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.3 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 30% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (18.5 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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