Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 27 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 3.73% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (16.0 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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