Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 2 times smaller than Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 49.92% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (18.4 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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