Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 4 times bigger than Switzerland.

Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 297% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (7.9 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Switzerland vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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