Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 8 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 11.9% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (45.1 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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