Country size comparison

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Suriname is around the same size as Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 87.4% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (20.9 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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