Island
Sri Lanka (island)
Natural Earth’s outline of Sri Lanka (island) measures about 65,700 km² (25,400 mi²), the 24th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Sri Lanka.
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The numbers
- 65,700km²Area, measured25,400 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 67,700km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.8% above our measure
The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%.
What the numbers say about Sri Lanka (island)
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 33.0× the size of Sri Lanka (island); Sri Lanka (island) ranks 24th.
- Sri Lanka (island) sits between Banks Island (70,600 km²) and Tasmania (63,200 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Sri Lanka (island) would be larger than 89 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 124th by area, between Sri Lanka (66,300 km²) and Lithuania (64,900 km²).
- It is larger than 11 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is West Virginia, 62,700 km²) and smaller than 40.
- It is larger than 5 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Ningxia, 52,100 km²) and smaller than 26.
- The closest US state is West Virginia (62,700 km²): Sri Lanka (island) is 1.05× the size of West Virginia.
- Sri Lanka (island) lies at 8°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Sri Lanka (island) stretches about 430 km north to south and 239 km east to west.
- 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.
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Where it lies
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.
Where Sri Lanka (island) ranks
Sri Lanka (island) is the 24th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys), public domain (Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys)). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11