Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 1.3 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 34% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (18.7 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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