Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.7 times bigger than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 66% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (17.0 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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