Country size comparison

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Libya is about 4,897 times bigger than Detroit.

Detroit is approximately 359 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 489,600% larger than Detroit.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Detroit vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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