Country size comparison
compared to
Suriname is around the same size as Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 14% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.2 million fewer people live in Suriname).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Suriname
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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