Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 8 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 12.75% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (31.6 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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