Country size comparison
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Suriname is about 6 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 15.89% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Suriname).
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