Country size comparison

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Libya is about 65,900 times bigger than Sydney.

Sydney is approximately 27 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 6,589,937% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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