Inner Mongolia is 6.16× the size of Syria

What fits

• Syria fits inside Inner Mongolia about 6.16 times by area.
• Inner Mongolia is larger by 959,000 km² (370,000 mi²), which is 516% of the area of Syria.
• Measured in Belgiums: Inner Mongolia is about 37.3, Syria about 6.06.

How they differ

• Inner Mongolia also has the larger population: 24.0 million against 23.9 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 128 in Syria against 21 in Inner Mongolia: Syria is 6.11× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 6,260 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Inner Mongolia at 44°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Syria at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Inner Mongolia as 8.00× the size of Syria instead of 6.16×.
• Together Inner Mongolia and Syria cover 1,330,000 km², close to the size of Peru (1,290,000 km², 3.0% smaller).
• The gap between them, 959,000 km², is about the size of Tanzania (942,000 km²).
• At Syria's density, Inner Mongolia would have 146.9 million people (it has 24.0 million). At Inner Mongolia's density, Syria would have 3.9 million (it has 23.9 million).
• Inner Mongolia's centre is 9.1° of latitude, about 1,010 km, farther north than Syria's.
• Inner Mongolia is the 2nd largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 12% of its area; it is the 28th most densely populated of them.
• Syria ranks 89th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Inner Mongolia lies about 9° of latitude (roughly 1,010 km) north of Syria.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Inner Mongolia would have about 47,590 m² and each person in Syria about 7,790 m².
• Laid side by side, Inner Mongolia and Syria would cover 1,330,000 km², 1.03× the size of Peru.
• Together they have 47.9 million people, about as many people as Kenya.
• Counted as a country, Inner Mongolia would rank 26th by area and 56th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 1,144,000 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,181,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 185,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 186,000 km², to within 2%.

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