Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 14 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 6.93% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (40.7 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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