Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 99 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 1.01% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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