Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 15 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 1,426% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (84.6 million more people live in Egypt).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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