Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 19 times smaller than Niger.

Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 5.18% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (1.3 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Niger vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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