Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 3.9 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 25.69% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~19.7 million people (19.0 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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