Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 8 times smaller than Suriname.
Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 12.84% the size of Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~639,850 people (5.7 million more people live in El Salvador).
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