Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 19 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 5.29% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (2.4 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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