Country size comparison

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Suriname is about 6 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 17.29% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.2 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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