Suriname

Facts

What the numbers say about Suriname

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 117× the size of Suriname.
• Suriname ranks 94th of 239 by area but only 170th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 3.9 people per km², Suriname is the 176th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Suriname lies at 4°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Suriname's main territory stretches about 465 km north to south and 452 km east to west.
• Our measured 145,000 km² is 11% below Wikidata's official figure of 163,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Suriname measures up

Suriname holds 0.8% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 13 countries listed for South America.

Where Suriname sits

• Suriname's centre lies at 4.1°N, 55.9°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 460 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 2°N to 6°N, about 460 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Suriname had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Suriname would have 181.8 million people. It has 563,000.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Suriname would have 540,000 people. It has 563,000.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 10.5 million.

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