Country size comparison

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Libya is about 1.4 times bigger than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 42% larger than Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (13.6 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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