Country size comparison

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Libya is about 70 times bigger than Maryland.

Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 6,851% larger than Maryland. Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people (1.4 million more people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maryland vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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