Texas is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America, whereas Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia. Today in this article, we will discuss the comparison between the U.S. state Texas and Sri Lanka regarding various aspects.
Size
Is Texas bigger than Sri Lanka?
The total area of Texas is 268,596 sq mi, and the total area of Sri Lanka is 25,330 sq mi. Texas is bigger than Sri Lanka by 243,266 sq mi. Texas is around 10.6 times bigger than Sri Lanka.
Area of Texas: 268,596 sq mi ( 695,662 km2 )
Area of Sri Lanka: 25,330 sq mi ( 65,610 km2 )
Population
According to the United States Census Bureau data, the total population of Texas as of 2019 was estimated to be around 29 Million.
Based on the Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data, the current population of Sri Lanka as of 3rd June 2021, is 21,496,048.
Here is some more data comparison between Texas and Sri Lanka.
The capital city of Texas is Austin, and the capital city of Sri Lanka are Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative) and Colombo (executive and judicial).
Official Languages
Texas: No official language, but English is the primary spoken language.
Sri Lanka: Sinhala, Tamil
Human Development Index
HDI of Texas as of 2018: 0.909
HDI of Sri Lanka as of 2019: 0.782
Texas Timezone:
UTC − 6 (Central Time Zone)
UTC − 7 (Mountain Time Zone)
Summer (DST):
UTC − 5 (Central Daylight Time)
UTC − 6 (Mountain Daylight Time)
Sri Lanka Timezone:
UTC + 5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time)
Geological Coordinates
Coordinates of Texas:
31° 28′ 32.52″ N, 99° 19′ 52.32″ W
Coordinates of Sri Lanka:
7° 0′ 0″ N, 81° 0′ 0″ E
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