Country size comparison

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Israel is about 80 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 1.25% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (1.8 million more people live in Israel).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Israel uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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