Country size comparison
compared to
Nigeria is about 1.9 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km,
while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making
Nigeria 52.5% the size of Libya.
Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people
(217.9 million more people live in Nigeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
Nigeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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