Syria

Facts

What the numbers say about Syria

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 91.3× the size of Syria.
• Syria ranks 56th of 237 by population but only 88th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 128 people per km², Syria is the 53rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 35°N is drawn about 1.5× too large in area, so Syria looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Syria's main territory stretches about 562 km north to south and 600 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 185,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 186,000 km², to within 2%.

How Syria measures up

Syria holds 0.6% of the land area and 0.5% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 6th largest of 19.

Where Syria sits

• Syria's centre lies at 35.0°N, 38.5°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,890 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 32°N to 37°N, about 560 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Syria had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Syria would have 232.9 million people. It has 23.9 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Syria would have 692,000 people. It has 23.9 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 13.5 million.

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