Puerto Rico is about 18 times smaller than Suriname.

Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 5.56% the size of Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~632,638 people (2.5 million more people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Suriname vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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