Country size comparison

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New Zealand is about 4.1 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 310% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (18.1 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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