Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 10 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 10.29% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (10.8 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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