Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 3.2 times smaller than Suriname.

Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 31.19% the size of Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~632,638 people (4.6 million more people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Suriname vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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