Country size comparison
compared to
Libya is about 10 times bigger than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 899% larger than Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.7 million more people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Libya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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