Country size comparison

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Libya is about 7 times bigger than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 554% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (2.1 million more people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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