Country size comparison

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France is about 8 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 741% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~21.8 million people (47.0 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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