Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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