Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 1.6 times smaller than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 62.91% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (14.7 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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