Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 2.2 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 116% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (21.0 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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