Suriname is about 2.8 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 35.39% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.0 million fewer people live in Suriname).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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