Country size comparison
compared to
Libya is about 16 times bigger than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 1,460% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (2.6 million more people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of
Louisiana
vs.
Libya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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