Country size comparison

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Palau is about 143 times smaller than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.7% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (23.2 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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