Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 1.4 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 38% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~22.2 million people (21.6 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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