Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 1.8 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 56.92% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (100.6 million more people live in Egypt).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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