Country size comparison
compared to
United Kingdom is about 7 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making United Kingdom 13.85% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (60.7 million more people live in United Kingdom).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
United Kingdom
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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