Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 10 times bigger than Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 894% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~21.8 million people (22.1 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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Moving from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka · UN DESA 2020
132 people born in Afghanistan live in Sri Lanka.
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