Country size comparison

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Greece is about 13 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, making Greece 7.5% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.5 million people (3.0 million more people live in Greece).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Greece uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Greece to Libya · UN DESA 2020
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