Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 4 times smaller than Suriname.

Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 25.2% the size of Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~632,638 people (7.9 million more people live in Switzerland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Suriname vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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