Sri Lanka is about 4 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 24.67% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (22.5 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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