Country size comparison

compared to

Sri Lanka is about 6 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 17.36% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (101.0 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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