Country size comparison
compared to
Sri Lanka is about 16 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 6.37% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (19.0 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Sri Lanka
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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