Country size comparison
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District of Columbia is about 371 times smaller than Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.27% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~21.8 million people (21.1 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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