Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 3.6 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 27.71% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (15.4 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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