Country size comparison

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Cyprus is about 190 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 0.53% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (5.8 million fewer people live in Cyprus).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Cyprus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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