Country size comparison

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Algeria is about 1.4 times bigger than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 35% larger than Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (37.0 million more people live in Algeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Algeria to Libya · UN DESA 2020
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