Country size comparison
compared to
Suriname is about 3.2 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Suriname is approximately 163,820 sq km, making Suriname 221% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Suriname).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Suriname
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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