Country size comparison

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Libya is about 1.4 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 73.88% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~47.4 million people (40.0 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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