Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 1.4 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 69.18% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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