Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 1.7 times smaller than Benin.

Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 58.26% the size of Benin. Meanwhile, the population of Benin is ~13.8 million people (9.4 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Benin vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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