Country size comparison

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Sri Lanka is about 7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 14.18% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (13.6 million more people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Sri Lanka uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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