Total & land area: Syria vs US size comparison [2026]

The United States is 53.1 times bigger by total area compared to Syria: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 71,498 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 70,900 sq mi for Syria — a 49.8 times difference in territory size.

Syria ranks 87/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Syria occupies 0.12% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
74.1% of Syria's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Syria has 0.29% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
2.84% of Syria is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.01% of the world's forests are in Syria, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Syria vs United States

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Total size and land area comparison

	Syria	United States
Total area	71,498 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	53.1
Total area rank	87/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.04%	1.93%
Land area	70,900 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	49.8
Land area rank	87/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.12%	6.14%
Population	24,672,760	341,784,857
Population density	375 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Syria	United States
Forest area	2,016 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	2.84%	33.9%
Forest area rank	138/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.01%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	52,533 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	74.1%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	61/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.29%	8.83%
Arable land	16,988 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	24%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	53/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	4,027 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	5.68%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	34/192	14/192
Water area	598 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0.84%	6.91%
Water area rank	101/197	3/197
Roads length	n/a	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	1,468 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	119.9 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0.2%	19%

Size of Syria compared to states in USA

If Syria were a state in the US, it would be the 17th biggest by land area: larger than North Dakota, smaller than South Dakota, and 3.68 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Syria
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x8.05
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x3.68
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x2.2
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x2.05
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x1.71
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x1.6
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x1.55
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x1.46
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x1.37
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x1.35
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x1.17
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x1.16
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x1.15
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x1.12
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x1.08
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x1.07
*	Syria	70,900 sq mi	*
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	0.97
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	0.97
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	0.97
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	0.94
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	0.81
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	0.8
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	0.79
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	0.78
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	0.76
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	0.76
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	0.73
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	0.71
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	0.69
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	0.66
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	0.66
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	0.63
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	0.61
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	0.58
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	0.58
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	0.56
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	0.56
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	0.51
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	0.44
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	0.42
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	0.34
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	0.14
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	0.13
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	0.13
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	0.11
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	0.1
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	0.09
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	0.07
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.05
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.03
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.01
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.003
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.003
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.002
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.001
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.0009

Syria vs United States size on the map

Data sources: World Bank | Agriculture & Rural Development (2026, retrieved 2026-04-06).

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