Sri Lanka (island) is 1.01× the size of Lithuania

Sri Lanka (island) (island) covers about 65,700 km² (25,400 mi²) and Lithuania (country) about 64,900 km² (25,100 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Sri Lanka (island) outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

65,700km²Sri Lanka (island)
64,900km²Lithuania

100 km

Sri Lanka (island)
Lithuania

What fits

Lithuania is 99% of the size of Sri Lanka (island).
Sri Lanka (island) is larger by 798 km² (308 mi²), which is 1.2% of the area of Lithuania.
Measured in Belgiums: Sri Lanka (island) is about 2.14, Lithuania about 2.12.

How they differ

Their centres are about 7,260 km apart.
On a standard web map Lithuania looks larger than Sri Lanka (island): Sri Lanka (island) at 8°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Lithuania at 55°N about 3.1×, so the map shows Lithuania as 3.00× the size of Sri Lanka (island), when Sri Lanka (island) is 1.01× the size of Lithuania.
Together Sri Lanka (island) and Lithuania cover 131,000 km², close to the size of Greece (131,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 798 km², is about the size of Dominica (730 km²).
Lithuania's centre is 47.7° of latitude, about 5,310 km, farther north than Sri Lanka (island)'s.
Sri Lanka (island) is an island and ranks 24th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Lithuania ranks 124th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, Sri Lanka (island) stretches about 430 km north to south and 239 km east to west; Lithuania about 285 km by 372 km.
Our measured 65,700 km² is 2.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 67,700 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Sri Lanka (island)	1.01×
Farther north	Lithuania	47.7° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Lithuania	3.1× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Sri Lanka (island)	Lithuania
Belgium 30,700 km²	2.14×	2.12×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.27×	0.27×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.18×	0.18×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.18×	0.17×
France 548,000 km²	0.12×	0.12×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 258	1 in 261

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Sri Lanka (island)	Lithuania
Is a	Islandisland on sizeversus	CountryEurope
Area, measured	65,700 km²25,400 mi²	64,900 km²25,100 mi²
Area, published	67,700 km²Wikidata	65,300 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	24th of 81islands	124th of 212countries
Latitude range	6°N to 10°N	54°N to 56°N
On the shore	1 on the shore	–

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Sri Lanka contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Sri Lanka (island). That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Similar in size to Sri Lanka (island)

Similar in size to Lithuania

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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