Country size comparison
compared to
Libya is about 10 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 10.29% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (134.9 million fewer people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of
Russia
vs.
Libya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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