Country size comparison

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Libya is about 6 times smaller than Canada.

Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 17.62% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (31.1 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Canada vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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