Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 5 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 19.89% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (10.7 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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