Country size comparison
compared to
Libya is about 9 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 839% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (14.4 million fewer people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Libya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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