Country size comparison

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Syria is about 1.5 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 53% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (2.2 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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