Country size comparison
compared to
Sri Lanka is about 2.2 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making
Sri Lanka 45.34% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(20.1 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Sri Lanka
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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