Country size comparison

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Kentucky is about 17 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 5.85% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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