Country size comparison

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Bangladesh is about 12 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Bangladesh is approximately 148,460 sq km, making Bangladesh 8.44% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (158.5 million more people live in Bangladesh).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Bangladesh uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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