Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is around the same size as Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 93.36% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (17.9 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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