Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 1.6 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 58% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (5.8 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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