Country size comparison

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Russia is about 261 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 25,960% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (118.8 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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