Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 1.6 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 62.76% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (106.5 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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