Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 220 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 21,917% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (22.8 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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