Country size comparison
compared to
New York is about 14 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 6.95% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (12.2 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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