Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 58 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 1.73% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (4.7 million more people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Belgium to Libya · UN DESA 2020
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