Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 11 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 9.31% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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