Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 9 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 11.28% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (20.8 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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