Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 1.9 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 53.65% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (3.8 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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