Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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