Country size comparison

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Libya is about 156 times bigger than Gambia.

Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 15,471% larger than Gambia. Meanwhile, the population of Gambia is ~2.4 million people (4.7 million more people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Gambia vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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