Country size comparison

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District of Columbia is about 9,941 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.01% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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