Country size comparison

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Colombia is about 1.5 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 64.73% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (41.9 million more people live in Colombia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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