Country size comparison

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Chad is about 1.4 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, making Chad 72.97% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (10.8 million more people live in Chad).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Chad uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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