Country size comparison

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Libya is about 9,941 times bigger than District of Columbia.

District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 993,990% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (6.5 million more people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of District of Columbia vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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