Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 261 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 0.38% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (118.8 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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