Country size comparison

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Libya is about 7 times bigger than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 602% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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