Country size comparison

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Libya is about 2,983 times bigger than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 298,218% larger than Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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