Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 3.9 times smaller than Suriname.

Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 25.36% the size of Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~632,638 people (16.8 million more people live in Netherlands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Suriname vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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