What is the area of Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka covers 65,610 km², making it roughly eight times smaller than metropolitan France.
Area and dimensions
With its 65,610 km², Sri Lanka is a modest-sized island in the Indian Ocean. To put this area in perspective, the island is approximately eight times smaller than metropolitan France (551,695 km²) and slightly larger than Belgium (30,528 km²).
Geography of the island
Sri Lanka measures approximately 445 km from north to south and 225 km from east to west at its widest point. This elongated shape gives it great landscape diversity within a relatively confined territory: tropical coasts, central mountains, northern plains, and humid forests in the southwest.
Key points
This compact area makes it easy to discover the different regions of the country during a single trip, from the beaches of the west coast to the tea plantations of the highlands in just a few hours of driving.