Country size comparison

compared to

Malaysia is about 5 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 403% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (10.7 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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