Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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