Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 2.2 times smaller than Nepal.

Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 44.58% the size of Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (7.5 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nepal vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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