Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 17 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 5.94% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (113.7 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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