Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 20 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 5.11% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (5.2 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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