Country size comparison

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China is about 5 times bigger than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 445% larger than Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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