Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 143 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 14,194% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (23.2 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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