Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 8 times smaller than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 12.43% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (7.8 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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