Country size comparison

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New Zealand is about 7 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 15.28% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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