Country size comparison

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Germany is about 4.9 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 20.29% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (77.2 million more people live in Germany).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Germany uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Germany to Libya · UN DESA 2020
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