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If you lived in Norfolk Island instead of Suriname, you would:

Basic Needs

be 47.3% less likely to have internet access

In Suriname, approximately 87.4% of the population has internet access as of 2023. In Norfolk Island, about 46.1% do as of 2021.

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Geography

see 91.7% less coastline

Suriname has a total of 386 km of coastline. In Norfolk Island, that number is 32 km.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2021), World Bank (2023). How we calculate this

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Suriname is about 4,551 times bigger than Norfolk Island.
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Norfolk Island: At a glance

Norfolk Island is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 36 sq km. Two British attempts at establishing the island as a penal colony (1788-1814 and 1825-55) were ultimately abandoned. In 1856, the island was resettled by Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions.
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