Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 156 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 0.64% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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