Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 1.6 times smaller than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 63.7% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (22.8 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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