Country size comparison

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Italy is about 6 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 17.13% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (54.0 million more people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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