Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 2.9 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 35.0% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (1.6 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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