Country size comparison

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Libya is about 1.5 times bigger than Colombia.

Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 54% larger than Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (41.9 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colombia vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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