Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 2.2 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 45.57% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.4 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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