Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.5 times bigger than Suriname.
Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 147% larger than Suriname. Meanwhile, the population of Suriname is ~632,638 people (36.6 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Suriname
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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