Syria is 4,918 times larger than Lowell, Massachusetts.
Area: 185,180 km2 World Factbook
Population: 17,951,639 (July 2014) World Factbook
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Wikipedia
Area: 38 km2 calculated
Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. With an estimated population of 108,522, it is the fourth-largest city in Massachuetts, after Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, and the second-largest in what the U.S. Census Bureau defines as Boston's metropolitan area. Wikipedia