Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 2.7 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 37.37% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (39.8 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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