Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 5 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 440% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (1.6 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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