Country size comparison

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Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 1.3 times bigger than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 33% larger than Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (101.3 million more people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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