Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 10 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 9.94% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.1 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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