Country size comparison

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Finland is about 5 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, making Finland 19.22% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Finland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Finland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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