Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 1.8 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 55.37% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (2.4 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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