Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 4.6 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 21.77% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (37.9 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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