Country size comparison

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Syria is around the same size as Kansas.

Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 88.46% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (18.7 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kansas vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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