Country size comparison
compared to
Sri Lanka is about 19 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, making Sri Lanka 5.38% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (34.3 million fewer people live in Sri Lanka).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Sri Lanka
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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