Sri Lanka is about 1.9 times smaller than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 52.0% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (13.7 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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