Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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