Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 2.6 times bigger than Maryland.

Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 159% larger than Maryland. Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people (17.4 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maryland vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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