Country size comparison
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Suriname is about 1.4 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 36% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (25.3 million fewer people live in Suriname).
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