Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 17 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 1,583% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (90.5 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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