Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 357 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 35,591% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (610,943 more people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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