Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 19 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 5.38% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (34.3 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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