Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 1.4 times bigger than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 45% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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