Country size comparison

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Latvia is around the same size as Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 98.44% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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