Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 1.8 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 55.79% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (17.0 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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