Rhode Island is about 24 times smaller than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 4.12% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (22.1 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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