Country size comparison

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Suriname is around the same size as Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 92.97% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Suriname).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Suriname uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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