Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 15 times smaller than Egypt.

Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 6.55% the size of Egypt. Meanwhile, the population of Egypt is ~107.8 million people (84.6 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Egypt vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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