Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 2.6 times smaller than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 38.58% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (17.4 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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