Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 9 times smaller than Kenya.

Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 11.3% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~55.9 million people (32.7 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kenya vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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