Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 3.1 times smaller than Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 32.07% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (16.6 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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