Country size comparison

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Japan is about 2.3 times bigger than Suriname.

Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 131% larger than Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~639,850 people (122.7 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Suriname vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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