Country size comparison

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Libya is about 1.2 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 81.23% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~56,831 people (7.4 million more people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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