Sri Lanka is about 10 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 10.06% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (15.2 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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