Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 2.2 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 121% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (20.1 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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