Sri Lanka is about 1.2 times smaller than South Carolina.

South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 84.13% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (18.6 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of South Carolina vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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