Country size comparison

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Libya is about 1.6 times bigger than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 59% larger than Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (106.5 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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