Country size comparison
compared to
Libya is about 2.8 times bigger than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 176% larger than Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of
Somalia
vs.
Libya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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