Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 7 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 14.97% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (17.3 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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