Country size comparison

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Japan is about 6 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 476% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (101.0 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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