Country size comparison

compared to

Sri Lanka is about 2 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 50.33% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (16.9 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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