Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 4.4 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 22.95% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (30.1 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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