Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 3.5 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 28.16% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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