Sri Lanka is about 16 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 6.37% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (19.0 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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