Country size comparison

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Western Sahara is about 4 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 305% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (22.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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