Country size comparison

compared to

France is about 3.2 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 31.34% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (61.2 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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