Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 1,588 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.06% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (138,657 more people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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