Country size comparison

compared to

Russia is about 10 times bigger than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 872% larger than Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (134.9 million more people live in Russia).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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