Country size comparison

compared to

Sri Lanka is about 146 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 0.68% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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