Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 19 times bigger than Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 1,758% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (34.3 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Sri Lanka
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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